Running (Trail & Off-trail) 45:00 [1] ***
shoes: Salomon XA Pros - Tomato
Near Futile Quest for Tiny Cell Phone (Needle) in Big Woods (Haystack).
'Bent lost his toque and cell phone while doing some orienteering practice yesterday. The phone was turned off so we couldn't call the number and listen for the forest to start ringing. He found the toque near control #2 before work today, then e-mailed a map with the rest of his route drawn on and an arrow pointing to a suspicious area where he'd bushwhacked through thicker brush.
I'd planned to stick to the Great Indoors on this grey day to recover from my cold, but because I am a devoted wife - the kind of wife who is willing to put her husband's carelessness with "zippered" pockets ahead of her own health - the kind of wife who is satisfied with nothing more than a fire in the hearth, a quiet evening with my family and, oh, say, a Salomon XT Wings softshell jacket size Medium in Atol Blue - well, of course, I headed out into the chilly, wet woods to help my husband.
After scouting the forest floor for several kilometers and seeing nothing but animal poop, mud and dead leaves, I discovered 'Bent's phone lying open (?) by a rotten log in the midst of some thick conifers. I'd really thought it was a lost cause so this was a happy surprise. Looks like it will recover from its night out in the rain.
Thanks also to Crash and Skyerocket for searching along the trails in Palgrave West!